← Jesus the Healer w/ Nancy Dufresne Audio Podcast
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Thank you to Kenneth Copeland Ministries for sowing the airtime for this broadcast.
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There's enough power in every sick room and in every hospital room to raise up that sick one that may be describing you. You may be in a sick room, you may be in a hospital room. And I want to remind you, power is present. That power is there to do a work, believe in what's not. Try to get something, but notice that he's already made it yours. It's present right where you're at. Say, I receive that power. I receive that power. I receive it right now.
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I receive it right now.
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From the top of my head. From the top of my head. The soles of my feet. The soles of my feet. Welcome. We're so glad you're with us today for Jesus the healer. And we invite you get your Bible and, and follow along with us and get something to take notes on because we're believing God for answers for your life. You know, God's Word is the answer book. And aren't you thankful that it always holds all the answers we need, even of questions we don't even know we need answered? It already holds our answer for us. And so it's our privilege to dive into our answer book and see God's answer meet our need every single time. I want us to go to something we're teaching in this series on in Christ. I can. And I want you to know that in Christ, everything that God dreamed for you, he put in Christ. Everything God planned for you, he put in Christ. And then he put Christ in you and you in Christ so that we could draw on all that he is at a moment's notice. Listen, there's nothing in us, in our own humanity that's going to be able to fulfill the will of God as it all. But it's all in Christ. As we learn to draw on him who's in us, he intends to fulfill God's plan through us. So we're never left on our own to fulfill the plan of God. But what we must do if we're going to fulfill all that God has for us, we have to renew our minds with the Word of God. What's that mean? We have to take on God's way of thinking. Listen, when you're reading scripture in the Word and you see that God states something, something differently than the way you thought about something, the renewed mind does this. It lays down what it's been taught that's not in line with the Word. And it takes on God's way of thinking by Choice. Not just by feeling, but by choice. You say, if that's what God says. It's what I choose to believe. What if you've been taught that your whole life a certain aspect of something, and you read God's word or you hear it preached and you go, I see that the way I've been taught has been wrong. The renewed mind lays down your own thinking to pick up the words of God. Now, how many of you know that God can only work through right thinking? God cannot work through wrong thinking. That's why the devil is always trying to insert wrong thinking. Because it's the wrong thinking that opens the door to the devil. But it's right thinking that opens the door to God. And in Christ we're to have the mind of Christ that thinks as God would have us to think. But also the Holy Spirit reveals God's word so that we can have the thoughts of God. We can think in line with how God thinks. Because if we believe the wrong thing, we get the wrong thing. If we talk the wrong thing, we get the wrong thing. And the one that we open the door to is the one that's going to manifest in our life. If we. If we think wrong, we open the door to the enemy, and then he will manifest. But if we will open the door to God, then he'll gain the movement in our life and it will reflect. It will be reflected by the fruit of what happens in our life as to who we're believing. I want you to see something here that Jonah. Let's go to Jonah 2 and I'm going to look at verse 8. Now, Jonah's in quite a situation here. God had told him what to do. God told him to go to a particular city and to preach and to warn the people that their lives were to come into agreement with God so that their lives would be spared. And Jonah decided he was not going to go preach. He what was it? His own inadequacy made him feel as though he could not carry out what God said. So what did he do? He bought himself a ticket. And he got on a ship to take him in an opposite direction from the direction God sent him in. And what happened? There came a storm. And Jonah said, the storm has come up because of my disobedience. And so he said, if you want to be saved, you have to throw me overboard. They threw him overboard, but God had prepared a fish to come and rescue him. My goodness, you talk about the creativity of God. You know, God will use different ways to deliver us different avenues and some of them we would have never dreamed of, of how God could work to deliver us, work to rescue us. But he had a rescue that day. It certainly didn't look like just a passing ship coming by, but it was a passing whale coming by. And he found himself in the belly of a whale. Now that ought to be an interest experience. But while he's in that. Well, while he's in the place God never intended him to be, how did he arrive there? By going a wrong direction. When we go in a wrong direction, when we go differently than God has directed us to go, we find ourselves in places God never intended that we should be in. But even though he was in a place God didn't intend for him to be in, God still provided a place to keep him safe. Because God still, still was going to use him if he would come into line with God's plan. So know this, that whale was God's provision. But it was God's best. He never have to be in the belly of a whale. I tell you, I don't want to be in a place I'm not supposed to be. Even if God sent it as a rescue. I'd rather just be where God told me to be to begin with. But while he's had a lot of time in there to evaluate some of the choices and decisions he made. And one of the things it's said in Jonah 2:8, it's recorded, they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. Look at that. He called being in the belly of a whale a lying vanity. What is he saying? That it looked like it was the end. He could not see that as the end. He couldn't believe that this is the end of my life. He couldn't believe that this is the way I'm going to exit the earth is through the belly of a whale. But what did he do? He believed in the mercy of God instead of what he saw apparently around him. Listen, the devil can cause all kinds of circumstances to come up around you. And in that he can. If I could say this, he wants to depict to you how your life is going to play out. But don't believe a circumstance when it's in, when it's different than what God's word tells you. That if we observe the wrong thing and believe the wrong thing, then we will bypass the mercy of God that he has for us. I want to. Let me give you an example of this. Years ago, I heard the testimony of a traveling minister who was preaching in a particular local church. He had a healing ministry. And while he was there ministering, there were some very dramatic healings that took place in that congregation. There were two women in that congregation that had the exact same type of cancer. And he ministered to both of them, and both of them instantly received healing. All the symptoms were. All the symptoms left, all the pain left, and both of them were declared by the doctor that they no longer had cancer. Now, about six months later, there was a part of the service where the pastor, where they were attending, he would invite anybody who had a prayer request that they could get up at a certain part of the service and they could turn in their prayer requests, so to speak. And so this one lady that had been healed of cancer, she said when the pastor gave that invitation, she. She stood up and she said, I would ask the congregation to pray for me because all those symptoms of cancer have come back on me. And when she said that and she asked for the congregation to pray for her, then the second woman that had also been healed of cancer, she stood up and she said, pastor, may I say something that I think would help her? And the pastor said, yes. And she turned to this lady, and of course, they're both standing up there in the midst of the congregation. She turned to this lady and she said, you know, the symptoms of cancer tried to come back on me, but when they did, I told her, no, you don't. I said, I'm not taking them back. And so when she said that, she said she stood her ground. And before long, all those recurring symptoms that tried to come back, they left. And so this woman said, it's not necessarily prayer you need, it's to tell those symptoms. No, because this is what we read in Jonah 2. 8. They that observe lying vanities, they forsake their own mercy. Do you know that the devil can cause certain outward circumstances that are a complete lie? They are not the truth. But he's trying to get people to adjust what they believe. He's trying to get them out of the flow of faith. But in Christ we are to become skillful and recognize that if it didn't come from Christ, we're not going to allow it to get our attention. Now, notice the wording here in Jonah, chapter 2, verse 8. They that observe lying vanities. What's this word observe? You know, have you ever seen a building and they call it an observatory? They will have maybe a plant observatory. They may have a solar system type observatory, and that is where people go to study further into that field. Well, I want you to know that if you're not careful that you can listen to the lies of the devil and you can observe some outward circumstances. And if that gets your attention, you begin fixed on that, you become a student of that, you begin to study and you begin to give your attention to what the circumstances are telling you. You're observing a lie. And if you observe a lie, what happens? The mercy of God is there to help you to keep from going the wrong direction. But if you get fixated on what the enemy is trying to show, what he's trying to play with in the circumstances around your life, that you will not even recognize that mercy is there so that you don't even fall into those lying vanities. Now this is what this second woman was telling this first woman. She said those same symptoms tried to come back on me, but I told them no. She recognized that they were trying to lie to her to tell her that she was not the healed and she wouldn't believe them and she called those symptoms a lie. Now the first woman was observing the lies. She was giving testimony to them. She was voicing to everyone, they've come back on me. Well, the first woman completely did not even understand what the second woman counseled and advised her in. And she just said, well, everybody pray for me. Well, within six months that first woman died. And it was interesting because the doctors that were tending to her said, you know, we know that she said that the symptoms came back on her, but they said we couldn't medically find them. So they said, we want to perform an autopsy. And so at their own expense they performed an autopsy. And they said when we opened her up, there was not one cell of cancer in her body. What was it? The devil was using lying circumstances to dupe her into thinking that she had that condition that she did not have. But she observed the lying vanities. And when she did, she what did she do? She forsook her own mercy. What mercy? The mercy of healing, the mercy of deliverance that she had received. If you get your attention on the wrong thing, the wrong thing will get movement in your life if we give place to it. Now again, this word observe is going to deal with your attention. And so if we get fixated on it, and I tell you the people in this generation have something particular to pay attention to and they can start observing what they shouldn't not be observing by getting on the Internet, they're getting on doctors websites and all this stuff and they're trying to self diagnose, they're researching what are the symptoms of this, how does it advance? How does this condition play out and what happens? They think that they're being wise to know their condition when they're really observing something that's going to cause them to forsake their own mercy if they don't get back to what the word says. And so they ended up burying this woman. But they said, the doctors said she had not one cell of cancer in it. What was it? What was this? It was that the fear of this condition killed her. And there's no sense in that. She observed the wrong thing. And when she did, she bypassed the mercy of God to pay attention to the wrong thing. And this is what Jonah, he recognized. If I observe lying vanities, I forsake my own mercy. He didn't think that just because he was in the belly of a whale that he was gone too far, that God couldn't deliver him. What happened? That's that fish became the servant. It became the ship of God to deliver that man of God. And how many whales come up to the beach? But this whale did and delivered him out on the beach because he became at the. He was at the command of God. And God rescued this man. Because Jonah, in the belly of the well, he. He. He refused to listen to lying vanities. He refused to believe that the circumstances against him, the circumstances that surrounded him were greater than the mercy of God. I want you to know, you can see maybe overwhelming circumstances, but the mercy of God is greater. You don't have to succumb to the overwhelming circumstances if you will believe in the mercy of God more than you believe in the devil's ability to bring harm to your life. But I want to look at verse 9 there in Jonah 2, 8 says, they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. But look at verse nine. He says, but I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving. So how do you choose the mercy of God instead of choosing surrounding opposing circumstances? If you will start giving thanks to God for his mercy, his mercy will come into play and will completely upend and override all the opposition that is against you. You know, in the Old Testament, because how many of you know in the New Covenant we have a better covenant? The New Covenant is better than the Old. And under the Old Covenant, when they sinned, when they missed God, what they had to do, they had to bring a sacrifice. They would take an animal, they would take it to the temple, that animal would be sacrificed to cover for their sins. And so it was quite an ordeal they had to go through to offer up these animals as their sacrifice. But I want you to see in Hebrews 13, verse 15, it says this through him, therefore, and I believe this is the Amplified classic translation, Hebrews 13:15. Through him, therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify his name. Notice this when we say this word, sacrifice of praise. Don't think that it's a sacrifice for me to praise God. That's not what he's saying. That's not a sacrifice for us to praise God in the face of adversity. He's saying, as under the old covenant, the people brought sacrifice, and that was the lambs, the goats, the bulls, whatever animal they offered as a sacrifice. But under the New Testament, we don't sacrifice animals. Our sacrifice in the New Testament, that which we bring to God, is our praise. So we're still making sacrifice. But it's not that bulls and goats and the blood of animals, it's the sacrifice that we praise him. That's our sacrifice. And this is what Jonah did. That while he was in the belly of the well when he prays, the mercy of God reached into his situation, overrode lying vanities that told him there was no help for him, that he was at the end, that he could not be rescued from this situation. I want you to know the devil will always tell you, you can't recover from this. You can't get that business back, you can't get that home back, you can't get that family back, you can't get that health back. These are lying vanities. Because we are not to say that what the devil brings against us is greater than God's mercy to deliver us. But how do we activate the mercy of God? Just the way Jonah did, we begin to praise him for his mercy. Listen, in Christ we have mercy that belongs to us. And what does the word tell us? His mercies are new every morning. And I don't care that when you wake up, the devil is there to tell you you're going to die young. I don't care that he's there to tell you that you're going to lose your mind, that you're going to lose your health, you're going to lose your business, you're going to lose your home, your children are wayward and they're never coming back. Those are lying vanities. And if we observe them, then we give place to them. But if we will begin to put our attention on the mercy of God. And know that the mercy of God is greater than any opposition that the devil could bring against us. That the mercy writes the ending. Not our mistake, not our sin, not our fault, that our failure. Because listen, Jonah missed it. It wasn't just him saying, oh, the devil attacked me. No, Jonah said no to God. He disobeyed God. But even in his disobedience, when he caught himself and he turned and he praised God, God rescued him out of where his disobedience put him. And I want you to know, even, I mean, there have been times I haven't obeyed as I ought. Maybe I didn't move quick enough with something. Maybe I didn't do exactly what God said. But I know this. The mercy of God is greater than my disobedience if I will yield to his mercy and comply with his word. And so that's exactly what Jonah did. Listen, how many times somebody sitting in the belly of a whale would say, this is it for me. I mean, that's where the natural mind would go. But Jonah said, I will not observe what this lie is telling me that this is not the end of my life. This is not how I'm exiting. This earth is through a well. I am going to have the mercy of God even when I'm in my place. That disobedience put me. God will deliver me. And it's his mercy that he does that. And I want you to know, because you're one with Christ, you belong to him. He belongs to you. Don't you think that he desires that his mercy work in your behalf? Listen, God is so merciful. He's merciful to the sinner, he's merciful to the unjust. Well, if he's so merciful to them, don't you know he's so much more merciful to his own children? You know, I love all people, but my children hold a special place in my heart. My family, my grandchildren. Well, God's the same way. He loves all humanity. But I want you to know his children mean something special to him. And there we should be, first partakers of his mercy. But how do we forsake the mercy of God? We believe the wrong thing. We focus on the wrong thing. Now, I want to go back. Let's look at Proverbs chapter 12 and verse 17. And I'm going to read this out of the amplified classic translation. Proverbs chapter 12, verse 17. It says, he that breathes out truth shows forth righteousness, rightness and right standing with God. But a false witness Utters deceit. How many know the devil's a false witness? He utters Deceit. Verse 18. There are those who speak rashly, like the piercing of a sword. But the tongue of the wise brings healing. Truthful lips shall be established forever. But a lying tongue is credited. But for a moment. Deceit is in the hearts of those who devise evil. But the counselors of peace, there's joy. No actual evil, misfortune or calamity shall come upon the righteous. But the wicked shall be filled with evil, misfortune and calamity. Lying lips are extremely disgusting and hateful to the Lord. But they who deal faithfully are God's delight. This whole passage is talking about the comparison between those who speak truth, those who speak lies. I want you to know everything the devil speaks is from a place of lies. If we take what he says and put it in our mouth, we have left the flow of truth and we've come over into the flow of lies. Well, we have to make sure that we're not becoming a co laborer with the the Father of lies. That when the devil says, your body's getting worse, we don't join in with him because that's a lie. I don't care that my body looks worse. I don't care that circumstances may feel worse. I want you to know I believe in the mercy of God more than I believe in anything that I feel that I see. Because if I will hold truth in the face of lies, that truth will override that lie and cancel it out. And this is what Jonah had to do. Can you imagine? I mean, he sees where he's at, he feels where he's at. He's never seen anyone delivered from the place he's at. But yet he believes the mercy of God will deliver him. And I so believe in the mercy of God. Thank God for the mercy of God. It belongs to us. Now, this passage that we Read in Proverbs 17 verses. Excuse me, Proverbs 12, 17, 22. Notice this. There are what, six verses or so that compare lying and truth. But right sandwiched in the middle of them is this is this phrase, the tongue of the wise brings healing. If we're going to use our tongue to speak lies, it's going to injure our life. But if we'll use our tongue to speak truth in the face of lies, it will bring healing. So this lets us know that speaking the truth or speaking lies will show up in our health. If we say, I'm not healed, when the Word says I'm Healed. I'm speaking a lie, and it will show up in my health. But if I say, in the face of circumstances, I don't believe my. I don't care what my body feels. God says that Jesus bore my infirmities. He carried my sickness. That he bore sickness and disease from me, that I am free from it. If you will hold to the truth, it will change the lie of the circumstance around you. But know this, he says, the tongue of the wise brings healing, but the tongue of the unwise is going to not tend to healing. So we're the one who chooses what we're going to speak. Are we going to speak what the Devil says? Are we going to speak what the Word says? Every time we're agreeing with God, we're agreeing with truth. Every time we speak against the Word, we're agreeing with lies. And it will show up in our families, it will show up in our life, it will show up in our finances, it will show up in our health. That if we. If we will hold to what God says, when every circumstance is trying to sway us away from what God says, that we will end up having God's best in our life. His mercy will reach our need. And so we see in the life of Jonah. We see firsthand that when everything looks like an overwhelming odd. If you will just hold to the mercy of God, if you will believe in the mercy of God, if. And you say, how do we do that? He told us by praising. That's exactly what he was doing in that belly of the well when he realized, I can. I can get out of this place by one way, and the mercy of God will deliver me. If you will hold to the mercy of God and say, father, I thank youk for your mercy. When it looks like something can't be rescued, when it looks like something can't be turned, when it looks like something has gone too far. I believe that the mercy of God is greater than every circumstance I see around me. And that's called speaking the truth. And when we speak the truth, it will produce what our words agree with. So know this. As I said at the start of this program, the Devil is always trying to get us to think wrong. Because if we think wrong, that opens the door to the Devil. But if we'll think right, that opens the door to God. Listen, all God's best belongs to us because we're in Christ. But that doesn't mean we can say anything we want. We have to guard our speech, that we don't speak things against the Word. And think that we're going to enjoy all the benefits that belong to us in Christ. We have to speak in line with truth, not in line with lies, not in line with circumstances that the devil can adjust and play with. Don't let yourself circumstances govern your faith. Only the word of God is to govern what you believe. Amen. Well, we're going to continue along this line next time and you don't want to miss it. And until next time, remember this Jesus is the Healer. God bless you.
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Today we're excited to announce a new worship album called in youn Glory by Grant Dufresne. For more ways to listen to in youn glory. Scan the QR code on your screen. In youn presence is my reward. Your glory is your power. I want you to know that every single person in this world needs a Savior. And the greatest thing of all is that we have one. But this Savior must be welcomed. This Savior must be received. And it's so easy to receive Jesus as the Savior. The Word says that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. So right now, do that with. With me. Say, jesus, I receive you as my Savior. Come into my heart and be the Lord of my life, and I'll live for you all the days of my life. God bless you.